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The Emperor of America Collier 1929 310 pp Very good condition with light soiling to covers, dust soiling top page edges. Lacking the jacket. See photos bx3

New York, New York, U.S.A.: A.L. Burt, 1929. Reprint . Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Slight lean, bumps to spine ends and corners, prev owner's name inside front cover. Jacket quite worn,bottom 3" of spine missing, extensive wear to corners and folds, front shows a yellow head (looks like an alien?) and says "Warning! Not to be read after dark". Early reprint of Doubleday Doran original.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1929. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Slight bumps to spine ends and lower corners, a few scuffs on back cover, otherwise clean and unmarked with bright pages. "Published for the Crime Club, Inc.".

Garden City, NY: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company. Stated First Edition. Moderate wear. Clean text. M12 . Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 1929.

NY: Doubleday Crime Club, 1929. [1st printing](1929) Black cloth, lettered in red on front and spine. Spine faded; lean; rubbing and edgewear; foxing and minor soiling.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good to Very Good-.

burt. 1929, very good , edge rubbing

A.L. Burt, 1929. Hardcover. A VG+ tight copy in a VG dj.

Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover without Dust Jacket. Bound in black boards with spiderweb design. Title information to d spine in gold. 310 pages. FINE. Binding firm and square. All corners pointed. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Garden City, New York: Doubeday, Doran & Co. , 1929. First edition stated. Black boards with red lettering is lightly skewed. Red lettering on spine moderately worn. No markings. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Vg-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York & Chicago: A.L. Burt Company, 1929. Sax Rohmer (pseudonym of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, 1883-1959) is noted for creating his Fu Manchu series, but he wrote many other novels and stories.This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of a Reprint Edition. Red textured cloth binding with black titling on the front cover and spine. Clean text; 310 pages. Faint pencil erasures (POS) on FFEP. Respectable copy of a title usually seen in poor condition. No dustjacket.. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 64mo - up to 3" tall.

burt,, hardcover, 1929. very good red binding with clear tape repairs to gutter, in a good dust jacket with clear tape repairs inside,

collier,, orient edition hardcover. 1929, near fine without dust jacket

burt,, hardcover. near fine in very good -fine dust jacket , 1929, slight corner wear, bookplate and name written inside

London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1929. First U.K. edition. A little foxing to front end papers, light wear to cloth at spine ends with a 12 mm tear at the head, upper front corner tip bruised with wear and split to cloth, a very good copy in a fair dust jacket with chipping and loss to spine and corners, closed tears with creases to front panel, several rubs/abrasions to lower front panel, and damp stain to spine and lower edges. Still, an uncommon book and the jacket is scarce. (30803). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-293 [294] [295-296: blank], original green cloth, front stamped in blind, spine stamped in gold. A gang of international criminals with advanced technology (mind control, cell phones, poison gas, electronic map, etc.) secretly expand their control of America from vast caverns under New York City and vicinity. Hubin p. 695. Bleiler (1978), p. 169. Reginald 12375. Day, p. 8.

Garden City: Crime Club, 1929. First Edition. Ownership signature, else near fine in very good lightly chipped dust jacket with a few small tears. The front panel of the dust jacket is a color painting of a mysterious yellow and red face. The jacket has “WARNING! NOT TO BE READ AFTER DARK” on the front panel and spine. “It was a dead yellow face - the face of a mummy. The eyes appeared superhumanly long, like the eyes of an Egyptian god. The nose was shadowy, the mouth a mere slit. No hair crowned the high skull. Such was the creature who sat draped in a black gown in New York - the Emperor of America...he controlled the greatest and most insidious band of criminals the world has ever known.”

DOUBLEDAY Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION IN DJ. owner's name.

GARDEN CITY: CRIME CLUB. 1929. Near Fine. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a Vg. lightly chipped dj. (Previous owner's signature. A few small tears to dj.) .

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with small closed tear to upper front panel and some mild dust soiling. A lovely copy. (14181). Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] 1-310 [311: ad] [312: blank], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red. Novel of intrigue, fantasy and yellow peril thrills. Bleiler (1978), p. 169. Reginald 12375. Day, p. 8.